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tractors on the isle of scilly

PARANOIA AND BRAVE NEW WORLDS - RIFT TALK TO RUNRIOT ABOUT THE TRIAL AND THE NEW ALL-NIGHT MACBETH

t-shirts printed by fishboy are inspired by all things rural. Our mens t-shirts as well as our ladies t-shirts, are all hand-printed in our Penzance studio. Each fishboy print starts its life outside. fishboy discovered this sign whilst out walking. We love the way the blue text really stands out against the grain of the wood. Inspiration for a cool t-shirt we believe. Men’s designer t shirts don’t usually start their lives in a muddy field. However, fishboy tee shirts usually do.

Well, fishboy is all about rural tees which means we're going to have to introduce this lovely “don’t walk in field” sign to the printed tee shirt range. We're thinking bright mint print on a blue tee would be a very good start. Don’t think we'll just do t shirts for men with this one either. Prints like this could look very nice on our t-shirts for women range. Similar feel to the chick and flower ladies t-shirt online in our fishboy shop.

All of our t-shirts are developed in the same way. Start the car, not the tractor, or go for a bike ride and get outdoors. Take a camera and drawing pad and just wander about in rural West Penwith. Once fishboy is happy that work is complete, it's back to the t shirt studio for a debrief. Then a simplification process starts that gives fishboy men’s printed tees and fishboy women’s printed t shirts that classic fishboy style.

“Don’t walk in field” is going to make an awesome t shirt range. It should be out for the summer, all being well.

Check out our other classic rural tee shirts in the fishboy online shop or better still come and visit our store in sunny Penzance. We have over 20 different rural themed designs celebrating all things “farmy” in lots of different colours. They're all hand printed in our fishboy silk screen printing studio. fishboy mixes all the colours by hand so our hand printed tees have that exclusive studio feel.

Cool t shirts for men and cool t shirts for women. It all starts in a muddy field.

Now get off my land.

Massey Ferguson 135 : Massey Ferguson 135 built 1966

from pink to mint : hand printed chick print by fishboy

all fishboy screen printed t-shirts are printed by hand in our pz studio

Farming and an exciting new discovery about its origins

Farming has been around for a long time, but news of how the first farmers took over the world was reported this week. As rural life is at the heart of what we do, we thought we'd report on here too!

It's always been believed that farming is such an obviously great idea that word of what it could achieve spread naturally throughout the world all by itself. However, it turns out this was not the case. The New Scientist reported last week that early man was in fact divided on the merits of farming. On the one hand there were the hunter gatherers and on the other there were the first farmers. Both existed alongside each other. It could even have been possible that they were in disagreement about the best methods of providing food for their families, until the success of the farmers displaced the less fortunate hunter-gatherers! Then, I suppose, it became obvious!

How Farming took over the World

This interesting news item came about due to a discovery by Pontus Skoglund of the Swedish Uppsala University, of two different sets of DNA. Stone Age genetic remains were analysed by the university, with a view to gaining an understanding of how humankind developed as it moved through the European continent. What they discovered was that the early farmers were descended from one lineage and the hunter-gatherers from another. The diets of these two sets of primitive man were entirely different. The hunter-gatherers consumed mainly fish and seals, while the farmers lived off the livestock they looked after.

Skoglund explained that one possible explanation for the two different groups could be the direction they took. The farmers may have moved to fertile lands and the opportunity to exploit them was obvious, while the hunter-gatherers, moved North, into a harsher, icier climate where the the population needed to rely on hunting and foraging. The evidence also suggests that as the farmers moved north the groups then mixed, with the result being that the hunter-gatherers were assimilated into the farming group.

The origins of Farming in Cornwall

Here in Cornwall, we have a rich agricultural history. Hunter-gatherers first settled here in 10,000 BC This was known as the mid stone age. With the advent of the Bronze Age, not only were all of ancient standing stones put in place, but also farming replaced hunting. The Celts and the iron Age (in about 750BC) brought with it the means to improve farming methods along with the first efforts to trade...and we still rely heavily on farming and trading today!

Our agricultural farming t-shirts can be bought in our shop in Penzance and online. Please click on the link.